It’s all happening at the house of Prada, it was just announced today that Prada SpA have submitted an application to the Hong Kong exchange which values the Italian fashion house at US$10.7 billion, excluding debt. The move to sell shares in Hong Kong is seen by industry experts as Prada’s way to tap into local funds...
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We grew up with a slew of Hello Kitty branded items as a child, so for us all the popular Sanrio characters will be intricately linked to our preschool years. But for lovers of Hello Kitty and her friends, Dr Martens have announced a follow up to their 50th anniversary Sanrio collaboration last year. Dr Martens x Hello Kitty...
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Last week we were invited to Tiffany & Co‘s flagship store in Sydney – when the invitation came in the mail, all boxed up in a Tiffany’s blue box and my name perfectly written in calligraphy, I was floored, and extremely flattered. As it turns out, the special reason why we were invited into Tiffany’s is because...
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One of my pet peeves is Apple and their “authorised” accessories. They are expensive. Fair enough they have to endorse an accessory before it can officially be called an “iPad case”, but sometimes the accessories are almost half the price of the item you’re buying it for. Now in a rather extreme case, Cnet...
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It seems we can’t go a few months without a Missoni collaboration being announced. First there was Converse (who just launched their Converse x Missoni Chuck Taylor Spring 2011 collection), then one with S.Pellegrino in June, then Toy Watches late last year, followed by an announcement that Margherita Missoni was the...
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Two things come to mind when I think of Dolce & Gabbana – besides Stefano and Domenico themselves of course – and that is animal prints and Naomi Campbell. Fittingly the pair have come together for the new Dolce & Gabbana Animalier eyewear collection and a few images from the campaign have been leaked out...
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We all remember that scene in Sex and the City when Carrie sneaks into the fashion closet of Vogue and discovers a pair of Manolo Blahnik Mary Janes, aka the Campari. Well those modern day icons will be remade into a necklace charm by TOUS, the Spanish jewelery brand, marking the first time the iconic shoe brand has delved into...
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Regardless of her IT girl status who has a super popular Mulberry handbag named after her, Alexa Chung has never seemed to promote many fashion brands. It was just revealed that the TV presenter and style icon will appear in the ad campaign for Superga, an Italian trainer brand who will also mark their 100th anniversary with the ad...
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Mulberry’s Emma Hill is in Sydney next week, and to say we’re more than excited to be sharing the same space as her at a garden party next week is a little of an understatement – we’re mentally compiling questions for her as we speak. So in our research efforts we couldn’t help but come across a piece...
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An email arrived in my inbox with the subject line: $35 bag with a 3 month waiting list. That $35 bag is by a brand called Thursday Friday and their Together bag is the bag in question. Why is a canvas tote getting so many orders? Well it could have something to do with the Hermes Birkin-esque print on each side of the bag –...
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